Enterprise Asset Management Software: Let's Build a Product Roadmap

Every time your organization is growing bigger and more
international, there emerges the need for accurate work order management
services. For these processes, you surely need trusted enterprise asset
management software. We’ve crafted this article which is dedicated to
popular CMMS solutions review and the creation of the roadmap for enterprise application development.

Facilities work order software: purpose, target audience, and B2B model

Before we get to the 'ins-and-outs' of enterprise software development best practices, we need to figure out first what exactly work order management systems are. If we try to refer facilities work order software to any of multiple
business types, we would probably start talking about B2B model. In most
cases, facilities work order software can be or is a vital instrument for
medium-to-large business organizations and facility and maintenance
services providers. To plan the more performant facility management application roadmap example, let's pay attention to the business 'mechanism' behind it.

The model often looks like the following:

How such applications are helpful for business owners

If you want to get the most out of enterprise software development best practices, you need to analyze the benefits for both company-producer and company-supplier.

Let's start with 'producers' category. Most companies and corporations, especially the constantly growing ones,
require more engagement of both human and financial resources for better
functioning on the market. Often, such organizations request facility
management services from 3rd parties to get all the necessary, let’s say
‘householding’ work done.

If we're talking about work order service providers (cleaning, repairing
and maintenance companies, etc.), they can offer the following range of
services for companies-requestors:

Technical infrastructure

Electricity and lighting

Equipment maintenance and repair

Transportation

Dumpster rental

Cleaning services

Sewage treatment

Landscape services management

Obviously, both sides need reports on completed or planned scope of work
and pricelist. It’s the part, where facilities work order software comes
to be more than handy.

With work order management solution in sleeve, companies can:

- find and keep in touch with facility management service providers; inform
them about the required to-do’s

- track work orders, expenses, and process invoices

- manage all the asset and other document types in one system

Service providers/suppliers obtain such opportunities as to:

- find a short or long-term job

- store and expand their potential and actual customers database

- manage all the work history and payments in a single place

Must have functionality, enterprise asset management trends, and market
leaders

Before we dive in enterprise software development best practices, let's see what stats we have here. If we refer to Capterra, we can see that the resource publishes the following list of
must-have features (which is in fact, ideal for the universal-like work
order and enterprise asset management software)

CMMS software short reviews

Let’s get to know what top features solutions have to offer.

Infor
was created in 2002 and is now on the same list of the world-recognized
EAM, CMMS solutions

Infor enterprise asset management software and CMMS offers to try out a few
of so many features for your company:

Maximo by IBM is considered as one of popular facilities work order software out
here.

Maximo proposes asset operating services in combination with IoT.

The great thing about Maximo is that it has CMMS/EAM solutions for various
industries:

Maximo’s key features include:

If you want more randomness, you can check out other top solutions, among
which are:

When we’re at the stage to consider different application roadmap examples,
we start from technology preferences. Before we choose should it be React
Native/React, GraphQL, NodeJS, etc., we need to understand app’s business
logic and the general concept behind it.

Here are several suggestions:

Is it supposed to be a mobile Android + iOS application?

Should CMMSs application fetch some data?

Is facilities work order software supposed to work in a real-time
mode? What is the exact and necessary functionality that should be
present?

Tips on building a software development strategy for facility management

At Apiko, we usually keep to the workflow model, which consists of 5 main
stages:

How can these 5 steps leverage your enterprise application development
roadmap?

Step 1 - Before we proceed with your product creation, we enter a
‘concept development’ stage. This initial step helps our customer and us
draw a clearer picture of:

Product goals and requirements,

Value proposition (your customers’ pains/problems and how your
product can be of assistance),

Buyer personas, customer behavior analysis

After all the analysis-related tasks are done, we create clickable
wireframes for the work order management solution and estimate the cost of
the entire enterprise application development. When we’re talking about money, the expenses depend on
a range and the scope of features you’re planning to implement.

Step 2 - When everything from the previous stage is agreed, we help our
customer’s product obtain the fresh look and feel. We get our hands on the
complex design development, which includes UI/UX + brand identity design.

Step 3 - It’s where the very ‘juicy’ coding part begins. Here is the
specific set of features to implement (i.e. an
in-app payment solution, or a notifications mechanism). We recommend to create the implementation
plan based on the priority of a certain functionality. After each
development part is carried out, and before/after product’s release, we
proceed with a meticulous testing process.

Step 3 in details:

Step 4 - Here the ‘total testing’ part comes. At this stage, after the
CMMSs application’s release, it’s important to identify the most critical
bugs (if there are such) in a single feature or in the entire app’s
architecture, and fix them in time.

Step 5 - App’s further support and maintenance, after it has gone live is
as vital for the project concept as a heart for the human being. You need
to have reliable developers and testers team to grow your project safe and
sound after its ‘first breath.’ We consider these 5 stages as the foundation stone of software development strategy for facility and assets management.

Have you passed the ‘Release’ stage already? Spread a word about your
facilities work order software

To squeeze a bigger boost from your app, here are several tips to have in
mind:

If it’s a mobile work order management solution, place it on Google
Play market + Apple store, review platforms, like G2Crowd,
Capterra, etc.

Reach for influential people in your industry and offer them to
check out your work order management software. Make new connections
on the thematic events.

Create several pricing plans. This will help you to sort out and
understand your audience clearer.

Constantly expand the list of solutions, according to your
customers’ reviews and requests

Produce a high-quality helpful content on your website which is a
great bonus for your potential and current customers

Instead of conclusion

We hope that this article has caught your attention and answered some of your questions regarding enterprise application development. If you’re curious about
work order management app development
, check out our PDF on ‘What a Perfect Work Order Management Solution Look
Like?’